Proposal of Glycocaulis Abyssi Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., Belonging to the Family Hyphomonadaceae

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Proposal of Glycocaulis Abyssi Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., Belonging to the Family Hyphomonadaceae International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2013), 63, 2207–2215 DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.047894-0 Cauliform bacteria lacking phospholipids from an abyssal hydrothermal vent: proposal of Glycocaulis abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., belonging to the family Hyphomonadaceae Wolf-Rainer Abraham,1 Heinrich Lu¨nsdorf,1 Marc Vancanneyt2 and John Smit3 Correspondence 1Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany Wolf-Rainer Abraham 2Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Belgium wolf-rainer.abraham@helmholtz- 3 hzi.de Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Cauliform bacteria are prosthecate bacteria often specialized for oligotrophic environments. A polyphasic approach, comprising 16S rRNA gene sequencing, lipid analysis and salt tolerance characterizations, was used to clarify the taxonomy of one isolate, strain MCS 33T, obtained from above the hot water plume of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent near Vancouver island, Canada. Cells contained no detectable phospholipids or sulpholipids, but did contain 1,2-di-O-acyl-3-O-a-D- glucopyranosylglycerol, 1,2-di-O-acyl-3-O-a-D-glucopyranuronosylglycerol and the novel lipid 1,2-di-O-acyl-3-[O-a-D-glucopyranuronosyl]glycerol-69-N-glycine. It is assumed that the various glucoronosyl lipids are replacing, at least partially, the phospholipids in their various tasks in the cell cycle. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain MCS 33T was 62.8 mol%, and Q10 was the predominant respiratory ubiquinone. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of this chemoheterotrophic, aerobic, moderately halophilic strain showed only a low similarity of 94.4 % to that of Oceanicaulis alexandrii C116-18T, and both strains also differed based on their lipids. Although the novel strain was isolated from seawater sampled near a hydrothermal vent, its optimum temperature for growth was 30 6C. The main cellular fatty acids were C18 : 1v7c,C18 : 0 and the unknown fatty acid ECL 11.798, and the main hydroxy fatty acid was C12 : 0 3-OH. The strain is proposed to represent a novel species of a new genus, Glycocaulis abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain of the type species is MCS 33T (5LMG 27140T5CCUG 62981T). For decades bacteria having a stalk and reproducing with this is that these bacteria exhibit the physiological regularly by the separation of two cells that are morpho- properties of oligotrophs (Poindexter, 1981). Henrici and logically and behaviourally different from each other were Johnson (1935) placed bacteria possessing these character- regarded as members of the genus Caulobacter (Poindexter istics into the new genus Caulobacter. Stahl et al. (1992) 1964). One descendant is non-motile, sessile due to analysed the phylogeny of a number of caulobacteria and adhesion to the substratum and prosthecate, possessing a found low levels of similarity between sequences of the 16S tubular appendage of variable length – a prostheca (Staley rRNA gene. We analysed a large number of strains for their 1968). The other descendant is actively motile by means of pattern of proteins, polar lipids and 16S rRNA gene one polar flagellum. The mode of reproduction of the sequences (Abraham et al., 1997) and revealed the dimorphic prosthecate bacteria is regarded as a reflection paraphyletic nature of marine caulobacteria belonging of an ecological adaptation helping to disperse the mainly to the two genera Brevundimonas (Segers et al., population at each generation and thereby minimizing 1994) and Maricaulis (Abraham et al., 1999). The marine competition between descendants for resources. Consistent isolates show particularly high diversity, with strains differing so much from the genus Maricaulis that they Abbreviation: FAME, fatty acid methyl ester. cannot be included in this genus but belong to separate The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene genera, i.e. Oceanicaulis (Stro¨mpl et al., 2003) and sequence of strain MCS 33T is AJ227811. Woodsholea (Abraham et al., 2004). We describe here T Three supplementary figures are available with the online version of this another of these isolates, MCS 33 , which does not fit in paper. any of the described genera. 047894 G 2013 IUMS Printed in Great Britain 2207 W.-R. Abraham and others The strains used in this study were obtained from the American type Culture Collection (ATCC), the Deutsche Sammlung fu¨r Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ), the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia (MCS strains, Maricaulis virginensis VC-5T, Woodsholea maritima CM243T) and from C. Stro¨mpl, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany (Oceanicaulis alexandrii C116- 18T). The strains were grown in the marine medium SPYEM: 30 g sea salts (Sigma), 0.5 g NH4Cl, 1 litre MilliQ-water. After autoclaving and cooling to ambient temperature, 20 ml 506PYE, 2 ml 50 % glucose (sterile) and 5 ml riboflavin (0.2 mg ml21) sterile filtered were added. 506PYE includes 100 g peptone and 50 g yeast extract in 1 litre deionized water (autoclaved). The strains were grown in 2-litre Erlenmeyer flasks at 30 uC and 100 r.p.m. and the biomass was harvested in the late exponential phase after 72 h. For electron microscopy, growing cells were prepared for negative staining, embedding and ultrathin sectioning as described in detail by Yakimov et al. (1998). Cells of strain MCS 33T showed morphological features typical of caulobacteria, when analysed by transmission electron microscopy. During cell division two morphotypes of daughter cells were observed: first, the swarmer cell, which is monopolarly and monotrichously flagellated; and, T Fig. 1. Ultrastructure of cells of strain MCS 33 . (a) Negatively second, the prosthecate daughter cell with its stalk stained dividing cells, which show characteristic caulobacterial (diameter 85 nm), ending in a spherical holdfast (diameter T features. One daughter cell is the swarmer cell and carries a single 140 nm) (Fig. 1a). Typically, strain MCS 33 formed flagellum. It is still connected to the second prosthecate daughter groups or clusters of cells (Fig. 1b), often bundled by cell by an extended septum. The stalk is terminated by a aggregated holdfasts (Fig. 1c, circle). Overall cell shape was characteristic spherical holdfast. (b) Survey view of a cluster of vibrioid and cell length ranged from 1.3 to 2.5 mm and cell cells, which show prostheca of different developmental states. (c) width from 0.65 to 0.72 mm. The interior part of the stalk Ultrathin section. A longitudinal cut shows the vibrioid shape of the appeared only slightly electron-dense and was surrounded cell body, which contains a pronounced chromosome, surrounded by the electron-translucent periplasm. The cell-wall by densely packed cytoplasm. Many prostheca end up in a tight architecture was Gram-negative; an outer membrane, cluster of holdfasts and form a typical rosette-like ensemble (white which was intensely undulated, formed the outer boundary circle). (d) Detailed view of the cell wall, showing the outer of the cell (Fig. 1c, d). membrane and cytoplasmic membrane. The periplasm appears as an electron-translucent matrix. fl, Flagellum; es, extended septum; Genomic DNA was isolated from two loopfuls of bacterial pr, prosthecum; hf, holdfast; cp, cytoplasm; om, outer membrane; cells using the DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit for purification cm, cytoplasmic membrane; stars, chromosome. Bars 1 mm (a, b), of total DNA (Qiagen) with the addition of RNase A 500 nm (c), 50 nm (d). (Sigma), according to the manufacturers’ instructions. DNA was enzymically digested as described by Gehrke et al. (1984) and the mean G+C content was determined by bootstrap consensus tree using the neighbour-joining HPLC (Tamaoka & Komagata, 1984). Calculations were algorithm (Fig. 2), maximum-parsimony (Fig. S1, available carried out according to Mesbah et al., (1989), with non- in IJSEM Online) and maximum linkage (Fig. S2) with methylated lambda-phage DNA (Sigma) as a standard. MEGA version 5.0.5 (Tamura et al., 2011), based on 1000 Amplification of the 16S rRNA gene and sequencing was resamplings and with Caulobacter vibrioides VKM1496T as done as described previously (Abraham et al., 2010). The an outgroup. phylogenetic position of strain MCS 33T was determined by analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence (Abraham et al., Isoprenoid quinones were extracted with chloroform/ 1999) using the software CLUSTAL W (Thompson et al., methanol (2 : 1, v/v) and analysed by the method published 1997). The 16S rRNA gene sequence showed 94.2 % by Minnikin et al. (1984). The main ubiquinone of strain similarity to that of both Maricaulis maris ATCC 15268T MCS33T was ubiquinone Q-10. For whole-cell fatty acid and O. alexandrii C116-18T and 93.5 % to W. maritima analysis, cells were saponified [15 % (w/v) NaOH, 30 min, CM243T. Alignment of sequences from the EMBL database 100 uC], methylated to fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) (Karsch-Mizrachi et al., 2012) was used to construct a (methanolic HCl, 10 min, 80 uC) and extracted [hexane/ 2208 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 63 Glycocaulis abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov. T Hyphomonas rosenbergii VP6 (AF082795) T 89 Hyphomonas hirschiana VP5 (AF082794) 100 T 0.01 Hyphomonas neptunium LE670 (AF082798) T 51 Hyphomonas polymorpha DSM 2665 (AJ227813) T Hyphomonas adhaerens MHS-3 (AF082790) 100 T 100 Hyphomonas jannaschiana VP2 (AJ227814) T Hyphomonas oceanitis SCH89 (AF082797) 97 T 92
Recommended publications
  • Chemical Structures of Some Examples of Earlier Characterized Antibiotic and Anticancer Specialized
    Supplementary figure S1: Chemical structures of some examples of earlier characterized antibiotic and anticancer specialized metabolites: (A) salinilactam, (B) lactocillin, (C) streptochlorin, (D) abyssomicin C and (E) salinosporamide K. Figure S2. Heat map representing hierarchical classification of the SMGCs detected in all the metagenomes in the dataset. Table S1: The sampling locations of each of the sites in the dataset. Sample Sample Bio-project Site depth accession accession Samples Latitude Longitude Site description (m) number in SRA number in SRA AT0050m01B1-4C1 SRS598124 PRJNA193416 Atlantis II water column 50, 200, Water column AT0200m01C1-4D1 SRS598125 21°36'19.0" 38°12'09.0 700 and above the brine N "E (ATII 50, ATII 200, 1500 pool water layers AT0700m01C1-3D1 SRS598128 ATII 700, ATII 1500) AT1500m01B1-3C1 SRS598129 ATBRUCL SRS1029632 PRJNA193416 Atlantis II brine 21°36'19.0" 38°12'09.0 1996– Brine pool water ATBRLCL1-3 SRS1029579 (ATII UCL, ATII INF, N "E 2025 layers ATII LCL) ATBRINP SRS481323 PRJNA219363 ATIID-1a SRS1120041 PRJNA299097 ATIID-1b SRS1120130 ATIID-2 SRS1120133 2168 + Sea sediments Atlantis II - sediments 21°36'19.0" 38°12'09.0 ~3.5 core underlying ATII ATIID-3 SRS1120134 (ATII SDM) N "E length brine pool ATIID-4 SRS1120135 ATIID-5 SRS1120142 ATIID-6 SRS1120143 Discovery Deep brine DDBRINP SRS481325 PRJNA219363 21°17'11.0" 38°17'14.0 2026– Brine pool water N "E 2042 layers (DD INF, DD BR) DDBRINE DD-1 SRS1120158 PRJNA299097 DD-2 SRS1120203 DD-3 SRS1120205 Discovery Deep 2180 + Sea sediments sediments 21°17'11.0"
    [Show full text]
  • The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks Bioblitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event
    National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Stewardship and Science The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event Natural Resource Report NPS/GOGA/NRR—2016/1147 ON THIS PAGE Photograph of BioBlitz participants conducting data entry into iNaturalist. Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service. ON THE COVER Photograph of BioBlitz participants collecting aquatic species data in the Presidio of San Francisco. Photograph courtesy of National Park Service. The 2014 Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz - Data Management and the Event Species List Achieving a Quality Dataset from a Large Scale Event Natural Resource Report NPS/GOGA/NRR—2016/1147 Elizabeth Edson1, Michelle O’Herron1, Alison Forrestel2, Daniel George3 1Golden Gate Parks Conservancy Building 201 Fort Mason San Francisco, CA 94129 2National Park Service. Golden Gate National Recreation Area Fort Cronkhite, Bldg. 1061 Sausalito, CA 94965 3National Park Service. San Francisco Bay Area Network Inventory & Monitoring Program Manager Fort Cronkhite, Bldg. 1063 Sausalito, CA 94965 March 2016 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics. These reports are of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate comprehensive information and analysis about natural resources and related topics concerning lands managed by the National Park Service.
    [Show full text]
  • MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY (Bjarnason, 1988)
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Analysis of the unique geothermal microbial ecosystem of the Blue Lagoon Solveig K. Petursdottir,1 Snaedis H. Bjornsdottir,1,2 Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson,1,2 Sigridur Hjorleifsdottir1 & Jakob K. Kristjansson3 1Prokaria-Matis Ltd, Reykjavik, Iceland; 2Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; and 3Arkea Ltd, Reykajvik, Iceland Correspondence: Solveig K. Petursdottir, Abstract Prokaria-Matis Ltd, Gylfaflot¨ 5, IS-112, Reykjavik, Iceland. Tel.: 1354 858 5123; fax: Cultivation and culture-independent techniques were used to describe the geother- 1354 422 5002; e-mail: [email protected] mal ecosystem of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. The lagoon contains both seawater Downloaded from and freshwater of geothermal origin and is extremely high in silica content. Water Received 16 October 2008; revised 11 April samples were collected repeatedly in summer and autumn in 2003 and 2005 and in 2009; accepted 27 July 2009. winter 2006 were analyzed for species composition. The study revealed the typical Final version published online 26 August 2009. traits of an extreme ecosystem characterized by dominating species and other species represented in low numbers. A total of 35 taxa were identified. The DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00757.x calculated biodiversity index of the samples was 2.1–2.5. The majority (83%) of http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/ analyzed taxa were closely related to bacteria of marine and geothermal origin Editor: Riks Laanbroek reflecting a marine character of the ecosystem and the origin of the Blue Lagoon hydrothermal fluid. A high ratio (63%) of analyzed taxa represented putative novel Keywords ecosystem; geothermal; biodiversity; bacterial species.
    [Show full text]
  • Bacterial Epibiotic Communities of Ubiquitous and Abundant Marine Diatoms Are Distinct in Short- and Long-Term Associations
    fmicb-09-02879 December 1, 2018 Time: 14:0 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 04 December 2018 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02879 Bacterial Epibiotic Communities of Ubiquitous and Abundant Marine Diatoms Are Distinct in Short- and Long-Term Associations Klervi Crenn, Delphine Duffieux and Christian Jeanthon* CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Roscoff, France Interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria play a central role in mediating biogeochemical cycling and food web structure in the ocean. The cosmopolitan diatoms Thalassiosira and Chaetoceros often dominate phytoplankton communities in marine systems. Past studies of diatom-bacterial associations have employed community- level methods and culture-based or natural diatom populations. Although bacterial assemblages attached to individual diatoms represents tight associations little is known on their makeup or interactions. Here, we examined the epibiotic bacteria of 436 Thalassiosira and 329 Chaetoceros single cells isolated from natural samples and Edited by: collection cultures, regarded here as short- and long-term associations, respectively. Matthias Wietz, Epibiotic microbiota of single diatom hosts was analyzed by cultivation and by cloning- Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany sequencing of 16S rRNA genes obtained from whole-genome amplification products. Reviewed by: The prevalence of epibiotic bacteria was higher in cultures and dependent of the host Lydia Jeanne Baker, Cornell University, United States species. Culture approaches demonstrated that both diatoms carry distinct bacterial Bryndan Paige Durham, communities in short- and long-term associations. Bacterial epibonts, commonly University of Washington, United States associated with phytoplankton, were repeatedly isolated from cells of diatom collection *Correspondence: cultures but were not recovered from environmental cells.
    [Show full text]
  • Supplementary Information for Microbial Electrochemical Systems Outperform Fixed-Bed Biofilters for Cleaning-Up Urban Wastewater
    Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016 Supplementary information for Microbial Electrochemical Systems outperform fixed-bed biofilters for cleaning-up urban wastewater AUTHORS: Arantxa Aguirre-Sierraa, Tristano Bacchetti De Gregorisb, Antonio Berná, Juan José Salasc, Carlos Aragónc, Abraham Esteve-Núñezab* Fig.1S Total nitrogen (A), ammonia (B) and nitrate (C) influent and effluent average values of the coke and the gravel biofilters. Error bars represent 95% confidence interval. Fig. 2S Influent and effluent COD (A) and BOD5 (B) average values of the hybrid biofilter and the hybrid polarized biofilter. Error bars represent 95% confidence interval. Fig. 3S Redox potential measured in the coke and the gravel biofilters Fig. 4S Rarefaction curves calculated for each sample based on the OTU computations. Fig. 5S Correspondence analysis biplot of classes’ distribution from pyrosequencing analysis. Fig. 6S. Relative abundance of classes of the category ‘other’ at class level. Table 1S Influent pre-treated wastewater and effluents characteristics. Averages ± SD HRT (d) 4.0 3.4 1.7 0.8 0.5 Influent COD (mg L-1) 246 ± 114 330 ± 107 457 ± 92 318 ± 143 393 ± 101 -1 BOD5 (mg L ) 136 ± 86 235 ± 36 268 ± 81 176 ± 127 213 ± 112 TN (mg L-1) 45.0 ± 17.4 60.6 ± 7.5 57.7 ± 3.9 43.7 ± 16.5 54.8 ± 10.1 -1 NH4-N (mg L ) 32.7 ± 18.7 51.6 ± 6.5 49.0 ± 2.3 36.6 ± 15.9 47.0 ± 8.8 -1 NO3-N (mg L ) 2.3 ± 3.6 1.0 ± 1.6 0.8 ± 0.6 1.5 ± 2.0 0.9 ± 0.6 TP (mg
    [Show full text]
  • Identification and Characterization of a Halotolerant, Cold-Active Marine Endo–1,4-Glucanase by Using Functional Metagenomics
    Identification and Characterization of a Halotolerant, Cold-Active Marine Endo-β-1,4-Glucanase by Using Functional Metagenomics of Seaweed-Associated Microbiota Marjolaine Martin, Sophie Biver, Sébastien Steels, Tristan Barbeyron, Murielle Jam, Daniel Portetelle, Gurvan Michel, Micheline Vandenbol To cite this version: Marjolaine Martin, Sophie Biver, Sébastien Steels, Tristan Barbeyron, Murielle Jam, et al.. Identi- fication and Characterization of a Halotolerant, Cold-Active Marine Endo-β-1,4-Glucanase by Using Functional Metagenomics of Seaweed-Associated Microbiota. Applied and Environmental Microbi- ology, American Society for Microbiology, 2014, 80 (16), pp.4958-4967. 10.1128/AEM.01194-14. hal-02138133 HAL Id: hal-02138133 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02138133 Submitted on 23 May 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. AEM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 6 June 2014 Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.01194-14 Copyright © 2014, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. 1 Functional screening
    [Show full text]
  • Distribution of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs in Freshwater Plateau Lakes
    Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 27, No. 2 (2018), 871-879 DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/76039 ONLINE PUBLICATION DATE: 2018-01-15 Original Research Distribution of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs in Freshwater Plateau Lakes Yingying Tian1, 2, Xingqiang Wu1*, Qichao Zhou3, Oscar Omondi Donde1, 2, 4, Cuicui Tian1, Chunbo Wang1, Bing Feng1, 2, Bangding Xiao1* 1Key Laboratory of Algal Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 3Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Management of Plateau Lake-Watershed, Yunnan Institute of Environmental Science (Kunming China International Research Center for Plateau Lake), Kunming 650034, China 4Egerton University, Department of Environmental Science, P. O. Box 536-20115, Egerton-Kenya Received: 13 February 2017 Accepted: 23 July 2017 Abstract Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic (AAP) bacteria are known functionally as photoheterotrophic microbes. Though numerously reported from ocean habitats, their distribution in freshwater lakes is far less documented. In the present study we investigated the dynamics of AAP bacteria in freshwater plateau lakes. Results revealed a high abundance of AAP bacteria in eutrophic lakes. Moreover, AAP bacteria were positively correlated with TN, TP, and Chl a, but the variations of AAP bacterial proportion to potential total bacteria (AAPB%). Alphaproteobacteria-related sequences dominated lakes Luguhu, Erhai, and Chenghai at ratios of 93.9, 85.4, and 70.6%, respectively, and in total comprised eight clearly defined subgroups. Sequences affiliated with Beta- and Grammaproteobacteria were found to be rare taxa. Additionally, Alkalibacterium-like sequences belonging to Firmutes were assigned.
    [Show full text]
  • Microbial Diversity in Long-Term Water-Flooded Oil Reservoirs with Different in Situ Temperatures in China
    Microbial diversity in long-term water-flooded oil reservoirs with different SUBJECT AREAS: BIODIVERSITY in situ temperatures in China MICROBIOLOGY Fan Zhang1, Yue-Hui She2,3, Lu-Jun Chai1, Ibrahim M. Banat4, Xiao-Tao Zhang1, Fu-Chang Shu2, ECOLOGY Zheng-Liang Wang2, Long-Jiang Yu3 & Du-Jie Hou1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 1The Key Laboratory of Marine Reservoir Evolution and Hydrocarbon Accumulation Mechanism, Ministry of Education, China; Received School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China, 2College of Chemistry and 1 August 2012 Environmental Engineering, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023, China, 3College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430079, China, 4School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Accepted Coleraine, BT52 1SA, N. Ireland, UK. 27 September 2012 Published Water-flooded oil reservoirs have specific ecological environments due to continual water injection and oil 23 October 2012 production and water recycling. Using 16S rRNA gene clone library analysis, the microbial communities present in injected waters and produced waters from four typical water-flooded oil reservoirs with different in situ temperatures of 256C, 406C, 556C and 706C were examined. The results obtained showed that the Correspondence and higher the in situ temperatures of the oil reservoirs is, the less the effects of microorganisms in the injected requests for materials waters on microbial community compositions in the produced waters is. In addition, microbes inhabiting in the produced waters of the four water-flooded oil reservoirs were varied but all dominated by should be addressed to Proteobacteria. Moreover, most of the detected microbes were not identified as indigenous.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Shifts in Organic Sulfur Cycling and Microbiome Composition in the Red
    Biogeosciences Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2018-497 Manuscript under review for journal Biogeosciences Discussion started: 17 December 2018 c Author(s) 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. 1 Shifts in organic sulfur cycling and microbiome composition in the red-tide causing 2 dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum during a simulated marine heat wave 3 4 Elisabeth Deschaseaux 1*, James O’Brien 1, Nachshon Siboni 1, Katherina Petrou 1,2 and Justin 5 R. Seymour 1 6 7 1 University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia. 8 2 University of Technology Sydney, School of Life Sciences, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia. 9 10 * Corresponding author current address: Dr Elisabeth Deschaseaux, [email protected], Centre for Coastal 11 Biogeochemistry, School of Environment Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, 2481, 12 Australia, Ph: (+61) 4 2360 2341. 13 14 15 Abstract 16 17 The biogenic sulfur compounds dimethylsulfide (DMS), dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) 18 and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) are produced and transformed by diverse populations of 19 marine microorganisms and have substantial physiological, ecological and biogeochemical 20 importance spanning organism to global scales. Understanding the production and 21 transformation dynamics of these compounds under shifting environmental conditions is 22 important for predicting their roles in a changing ocean. Here, we report the physiological and 23 biochemical response of Alexandrium minutum, a dinoflagellate with the highest reported 24 intracellular DMSP content, exposed to a 6 day increase in temperature mimicking coastal 25 marine heatwave conditions (+ 4°C and + 12°C). Under mild temperature increases (+ 4°C), 26 A. minutum growth was enhanced, with no measurable physiological stress response.
    [Show full text]
  • Identification of Microorganisms for The
    IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS FOR THE BIOREMEDIATION OF NITRATE AND MANGANESE IN MINNESOTA WATER A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY EMILY ANDERSON IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE Satoshi Ishii AUGUST, 2018 © Emily Anderson 2018 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by Minnesota Department of Agriculture (Project No. 108837), the Minnesota’s Discovery, Research and InnoVation Economy (MnDRIVE) initiative of the University of Minnesota, and the USDA North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) Graduate Student Grant Program. Additionally, I would like to thank my advisor, Satoshi Ishii, for taking me on as his first student and for his support and guidance throughout my degree program. I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Mike Sadowsky and Dr. Carl Rosen, as well as Dr. Gary Feyereisen for their time and advice towards achieving my degree. I am also grateful to the Ishii lab members for their support over the last two years, especially Jeonghwan Jang and Qian Zhang who have always been more than willing to help. I have enjoyed field and lab days in Willmar with the “woodchip team” (Ping Wang, Jeonghwan Jang, Ehsan Ghane, Ed Dorsey, Scott Schumacher, Todd Schumacher, Allie Arsenault, Hao Wang, Amanda Tersteeg) and others that were willing to volunteer with us (Nouf Aldossari, Stacy Nordstrom and Persephone Ma). For the manganese bioremediation project, I am grateful for the advice and encouragement from Dr. Cara Santelli and for the help from members of her lab. Luke Feeley had an important part in the manganese bioreactor establishment and maintenance as did Kimberly Hernandez and I am thankful for their contributions.
    [Show full text]
  • Lindane Bioremediation Capability of Bacteria Associated with the Demosponge Hymeniacidon Perlevis
    marine drugs Article Lindane Bioremediation Capability of Bacteria Associated with the Demosponge Hymeniacidon perlevis Stabili Loredana 1,2,*, Pizzolante Graziano 2, Morgante Antonio 2, Nonnis Marzano Carlotta 3,4, Longo Caterina 3,4, Aresta Antonella Maria 5, Zambonin Carlo 5, Corriero Giuseppe 3,4 and Alifano Pietro 2 1 Istituto per l’Ambiente Marino Costiero, Unità Operativa di Supporto di Taranto, CNR, Via Roma 3, 74123 Taranto, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, Via Prov.le Lecce Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy; [email protected] (P.G.); [email protected] (M.A.); [email protected] (A.P.) 3 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy; [email protected] (N.M.C.); [email protected] (L.C.); [email protected] (C.G.) 4 CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00196 Roma, Italy 5 Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy; [email protected] (A.A.M.); [email protected] (Z.C.) * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39-0832-298971 Academic Editors: Vassilios Roussis, Efstathia Ioannou and Keith B. Glaser Received: 23 January 2017; Accepted: 27 March 2017; Published: 6 April 2017 Abstract: Lindane is an organochlorine pesticide belonging to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that has been widely used to treat agricultural pests. It is of particular concern because of its toxicity, persistence and tendency to bioaccumulate in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In this context, we assessed the role of bacteria associated with the sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis in lindane degradation.
    [Show full text]
  • Hirschia Baltica Type Strain (IFAM 1418T)
    Standards in Genomic Sciences (2011) 5:287-297 DOI:10.4056/sigs.2205004 Complete genome sequence of Hirschia baltica type strain (IFAM 1418T) Olga Chertkov1,2, Pamela J.B. Brown3, David T. Kysela3, Miguel A. DE Pedro4, Susan Lucas1, Alex Copeland1, Alla Lapidus1, Tijana Glavina Del Rio1, Hope Tice1, David Bruce1, Lynne Goodwin1,2, Sam Pitluck1, John C. Detter1,2, Cliff Han1,2, Frank Larimer2, Yun-juan Chang1,5, Cynthia D. Jeffries1,5, Miriam Land1,5, Loren Hauser1,5, Nikos C. Kyrpides1, Natalia Ivanova1, Galina Ovchinnikova1, Brian J. Tindall6, Markus Göker6, Hans-Peter Klenk6*, Yves V. Brun3* 1 DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA 2 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 3 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 4 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain 5 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA 6 DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany *Corresponding author: [email protected], [email protected] Keywords: aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, mesophile, Gram-negative, motile, budding, stalk- forming, Hyphomonadaceae, Alphaproteobacteria, CSP 2008 The family Hyphomonadaceae within the Alphaproteobacteria is largely comprised of bacte- ria isolated from marine environments with striking morphologies and an unusual mode of cell growth. Here, we report the complete genome sequence Hirschia baltica, which is only the second a member of the Hyphomonadaceae with a published genome sequence. H. bal- tica is of special interest because it has a dimorphic life cycle and is a stalked, budding bacte- rium. The 3,455,622 bp long chromosome and 84,492 bp plasmid with a total of 3,222 pro- tein-coding and 44 RNA genes were sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Program CSP 2008.
    [Show full text]